We headed over to Portage Michigan in order to look for orange-fringed orchids at Bishop’s Bog.
Bishop’s Bog had an excellent board walk and lots of interesting plants.
We probably walk a mile along the board walk looking for orchids.
Button bush is a common shrub and can attract many insects. The one here is one of the flower flys.
Here’s Susan photographing orange-fringed orchids.
A couple of the 55 that we found. The larger flower stems were about 18-24 inches tall with an explosion of color.
Some carnivorous plants in the bog included many spatulate sundew, some round-leaf sundew and a few purple pitcher plants.
More later…
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